Mission

The mission statement of the Department of Nursing Science is to provide nursing education in an academic setting for the BSN and MSN.  Nursing education will ensure provision of quality nursing care that is responsive to the health needs of the nation and the region.  Our program of study will ensure that the required numbers of appropriately qualified nurses are available to render professional services.

Vision

The department strives to be a centre of excellence in the education and training of professional nurses (both graduate and postgraduate) who will provide leadership to the nations’ nursing services in any setting. The nurses so produced should be able to carry out research and utilize research findings in the provision of quality care to individuals, families, groups and communities along the health – illness continuum and across the life span.

The Philosophy of the Department of Nursing Science

The facility of the Department of Nursing Science believe that man is a bio-psychosocial, cultural and spiritual being whose health- illness continuum are  interactive with family and environmental conditions.  The programmes of study offered, therefore, are aimed at developing competencies through the basic and social science courses and advanced nursing courses which enable the students understand human beings and their environments and use such understanding as the basis for planning, implementing and evaluating the quality of nursing care provided.

In addition to supporting the national philosophy, the Department of Nursing Science functions within the context of the University of Zimbabwe’s guiding principles of Knowledge, Diligence and Integrity.  The Department conceptualizes nursing as a service profession and an academic discipline.  Professionally, nursing uses scientific and practical knowledge in response to the complex and changing societal health needs.  As a discipline it must, therefore, progressively develop a sound body of knowledge that is both ethical and empirical,  which reflects the holistic approach in meeting total health needs of individuals, families, groups and communities.